How Britain Gave America the Ick

How Britain gave America the ick

Late in the spring of 1946, Winston Churchill was invited to speak at a small Midwestern liberal arts college — named Westminster, suitably — in the flyspeck town of Fulton, Missouri. The newly unemployed prime minister accepted the undeniably incongruous invitation once he learned that President Truman himself would perform the introductions, and promptly vowed to make it a humdinger, a speech for the ages. What is best remembered now is the lin